Kojonup’s Libby Hardingham has been selected to represent WA in the race to be Australia’s best young merino fleece judge in September.
Hannah Whitehead
New research has confirmed what the Australian wool industry already knew: Merino wool has an unparalleled ability in thermal regulation, moisture control and odor resistance.
Melissa Pedelty
Australian Wool Innovation has announced a 50 per cent cut to its shearer and wool handler training budget as the industry grapples with a plummeting wool production.
Great Southern woolgrower Thomas Campbell, 26, has returned from a trip of a lifetime, visiting China’s woollen mills with a group of eight young people coordinated by Australian Wool Innovation.
Bob Garnant
Australian ultrafine woolgrowers are enjoying increased values and demand as supply lifts with drier conditions throughout the fine wool growing regions.
Australian farmers have not been in a rush to transition away from mulesing, especially in WA, but with growing premiums for non-mulesed wool this could be set to change.
The Australian wool industry is feeling a weight lifted after wool sales recorded a 5.7 per cent increase in price on last financial year.
Australia’s 2025-26 wool selling season has commenced in the positive, despite it being the smallest opening sale since AWEX records began in 1997.
AWN has unveiled a leadership shuffle to kick off the new financial year, with Rick Maybury stepping up as managing director and chief executive after more than eight years with the business.
Georgia Campion
AWI’s top boss says the company will have to make “tough choices” with its projected income at the lowest its been in more than a decade as the company unveils its roadmap for the next three years.
Jock Laurie and Emma Watson will step down from the Australian Wool Innovation board come November, while NSW-based vet Michelle Humphries has put her hand up for re-election.
The message of the WA Shearing Industry Association annual general meeting was clear — the wool industry is strong and here to stay.
Former leader of the opposition Mia Davies says the sheep industry needs to utilise the momentum of the Keep the Sheep movement to safeguard the future of the industry.
Melissa
WA Competition Shearing Association member Gail Simmons honoured with life membership for more than 20 years of service.
WA shearers and woolhandlers were recognised for their excellence during the WA Competition Shearing Association’s 2024-25 show circuit held across the State by supportive sponsors and volunteers.
WA shearing contractors, shearers and industry representatives gathered to share insight into the industry at the WA Shearing Industry Association annual general meeting.
Eastern Wheatbelt shearers are among the hardest hit across the State as declining sheep numbers start to flow through but the full impact is still “too soon to tell”.
Recent global dairy commodity price rises are making headlines but in Australia, seasonal conditions and higher input costs continue to put pressure on the country’s third-largest rural industry.
WA sheep prices are soaring and so are Brad Faithfull’s hopes for the wool industry after a challenging start to the year.
Putting wool in the international spotlight, Australian Wool Innovation’s eye-catching campaign Wear Wool, Not Waste has won a series of awards.
Australian Wool Innovation is refreshing its board for the first time in two years, with first steps already underway to fill several outgoing director positions including that of chairman Jock Laurie.
Former leader of the Opposition Mia Davies joins a line-up of speakers at the WA Shearing Industry Association’s general meeting this month.
AWN implements new cost-effective show floor system to more efficiently manage wool samples in WA.
The Australian wool industry is breathing a sigh of relief as the wool market makes its first meaningful recovery after four consecutive weeks of declines.
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